Rice and Asian Culture

“White basmati rice from California, India, and Pakistan, and sushi rice from the U.S. on average has half of the inorganic

Since the late 1800s, Chinese immigrants have come to our country bringing with them a rich culture, that not only included art and poetry but they brought with them their very unique style of cuisine. Chinese food has had a unique influence on American cuisine, with over 40,000 restaurants across the United States, there are more Chinese restaurants in America than all the McDonald's Burger King's and KFC's combined. The Chinese culture has truly made a huge imprint on the American food industry.

While his children were struggling with bridging their two worlds, Otoosan was busy working to support his family during the down turn in the economy and still provide for the well being of his mother and Shigeno in Japan. It was only a year after the Black Thursday that signaled the crash of the stock market that the children had returned to.

Burma, also known as Myanmar, is located in the Southeast Asia and bordered by India, China, Thailand and Laos. Because of its special geographical location, Burma is a multicultural country and it has different ethnic groups like Indian, Chinese and Thai. Burmese food culture didn 't get much attention for everyone because of their history. But in fact, the Burmese food culture is very similar to the other Asian countries ' that has its very attractive features. So in order to know more about the Burmese food culture, we need to find out some of the Burmese food knowledge, such as their food traditions, their eating patterns, and etiquettes, their therapeutic/medicinal foods/taboos.

Rice is a major staple for over half of the world, mostly Asia. As a major portion of the diet to billions of people, rice has proven to be semi-adequate sustenance for major populations. Rice has proven to be effective in sustaining life albeit malnourished; hence, rice has been at the forefront of modern genetic modification to improve the lives of many. Much of the research goes into production research to attain higher yields of rice for an ever growing population and the delimiting of world hunger and nutritionally deficient deaths. Much of the mass production of genetically modified rice has been stagnant to some degree from the incorporation of heavy regulation on Genetically Modified Organisms and their

Imagine a plant that has never been put under the sun for two days. You will see a big difference from before the plant that was put under the sun because the sun is their staple food for photosynthesis to produce energy. Just like humans, food is the main source of energy, without it, no tasks will be performed. Did you know that statistics show the consumption of rice in 2016 to present went to 475.64 million tons worldwide? (Statistics Portal, 2017) In Asia, rice serves as a basic dietary plan that is served on every table because it is easy to cook, it is inexpensive and goes with meat perfectly.Specifically, white rice is the most widely consumed in some countries in Asia, however, talking about health issues brown rice gives various benefits on human health compared to white rice. Basically, white rice is once a brown rice it is just how the preparation changes the kernel. When brown rice removes the hull and the bran it loses its nutrients and it will turn to a “white rice.” Brown rice is much healthier because its nutrients fortify the whole kernel that gives great benefits to our body. Consumers of brown rice will lead to lower risks of possible health problems, effects in our body, and produces minerals.

Chong, M. (2003). Acceptance of golden rice in the Philippine 'rice bowl' Nat Biotech Nature Biotechnology, 21(9), 971-972. doi:10.1038/nbt0903-971

Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world population which means that this tender plant actually feeds whopping 3.5 billion mouths daily. Revered as a sign of prosperity, fertility and auspiciousness by different communities across the globe, there are various lessons which this wonderful gift of nature can tell us and one of the most important are those related to various leadership traits.

The Gilani variety of rice is considered the best in Iran, where it has been cultivated since the

In China, rice has its own Chinese name, we call it ‘Dami’. It is the major source of food of Chinese. The excavations at Kuahuqiao (the earliest known Neolithic site in eastern China) have proof that the ancient Chinese had mastered rice-planting technique 7,700 years ago. Although the rice-planting history in China is long, China did not have a market economy until 1911. And because the data related to rice I can find is limited. So this essay will be focused on the time period since China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Given the problems of traditional export markets, Vietnam's rice exports in October 2013 fell 15.2% in volume and 17.9% in value (respectively one million tons and 562 million). The traditional market of Vietnam’s rice is Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia also plummeted due to highly competitive market from India, Thailand, Pakistan,… Meanwhile, China importation had strengthened Vietnam's rice exports in the last two years, from nearly 310 thousand tons in 2011 to 2.08 million tons in 2012 and as of May 10, 2013 reached 1.93 million tons.

The above figure presents the world rice exporter market share in 2015, Rice exported by country totalled US $24 billion in 2011, the main country that compete in the world market for exporting rice are Thailand, Vietnam, India and Pakistan where Thailand can be considered as the second biggest rice exporter. The above bar graph represents the major rice export shares from 1998 to 2000. As the world rice kitchen Thailand have exported 26.2% which was the highest during 1998-2000.However, Vietnam ranked the second which exported 15.6% in which 10% lower than Thailand, then follows by India which have exported 11.40% of the total world rice export. Pakistan was the lowest exporter of rice in the world during that period which exported 7.90%. Thailand as the world rice exporter and producer, in 2011, Thailand have exported 10.7 million metric tons and the export’s worth $ 6.43 billion USD where Vietnam was the second rice exporter in the world market which have exported the volume of 7.2 million metric tons, hence; following by India which have exported the volume of 4.3 million metric tons.

The prices of rice for fine rice variety and Masuri variety are higher in the northern region. Such a trend is not visible for very fine rice variety.

Farming is a crucial profitable section in India and it provides employment options. Farming in India has a large background that stretches many years ago. It is one of the the leading countries in crop production in the world and within its country agriculture is the biggest. One of its important features of farming is the mixture in weather conditions, there is good distribution of soil, therefore a broad span of grown vegetation in the country. India encounters both tropical and mild weather, and because of that weather it helps with farming of crops fit for both weathers. Around the world, there is a handful of countries with close diversity as India. That is why India is the best choice.

from rice, people have no need to import from the outside world any consuming products.